Keeping Customer Data Safe

Name: Keeping Customer Data Safe
Start: 2014-07-11T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2014-07-11T15:00:00-07:00
Location: PagerDuty HQ

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Lately, all we hear about is security. From DDOS attacks to exposing millions of pieces of customer information, getting the proper host and network level security is hard. At this meetup, we'll be teaming up with Twitter and Okta to highlight some of the strategies, techniques and tools that our teams use to build customer trust by ensuring our customer data is safe.

With over a billion global registered users, Twitter’s security team is responsible for keeping every account safe and to protect Twitter a freedom of speech tool. From two-factor authentication to geo-signals, threat levels are different for each user and account-level security needs to be granular to identity and stop hackers for their diverse user base. Working closely with engineering teams across the company to design and implement secure systems, Alex Smolden and his security team use an automated approach to deploying a specific suite of tools to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities.

In our second talk, Evan on PagerDuty's operations team will discuss how we establish security standards at PagerDuty and constantly validate our security architecture. Evan will also dive into how PagerDuty creates fault tolerant protocols and how to set up monitoring to immediately tackle any security threat. For PagerDuty, protecting customer data not only builds customer trust, but helps ensure maximum uptime across their platform.

With the ever-expanding number of devices, cloud applications, and people (employees, partners, customers and consumers), IT is facing a tough challenge to securely and efficiently manage access. When managing security for internal users, the problem often spans across IT, HR, and Operations. When managing security for external facing applications, the problem goes beyond IT and business owners - potentially involving partners and customers' IT. In our third talk, Stephen Lee, Director of Platform Solutions at Okta will examine the entire lifecycle of identity, access controls, and the strategies it employes internally and for its 1,200 enterprise customers

Speaker bios:

Alex Smolen, Software Engineer at Twitter. Alex has a masters degree from the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Previously, he was a web security consultant at Foundstone, a division of McAfee.
Evan Gilman, Operations Engineer at PagerDuty. Evan is a Senior Engineer on our Operations Team and when Evan isn’t in the SF office, you can find him with a camera in an exotic part of the world.
Stephen Lee, Director of Platform Solutions at Okta. Stephen is charge of product strategy and evangelism, focusing on solutions for ISV/SI partners and customers. Prior to joining Okta, Stephen spent 10+ years at Oracle serving multiple roles from engineering to product management in the area of Identity Management.

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